"The flood" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... when first raised above the sea, must have been active volcanoes, sending out hot from their craters the flood of lava and the heated rocks which now lie cold and hard, and overgrown with moss, to tell us of ...
— Famous Islands and Memorable Voyages • Anonymous
... seems to warm even the flood of rain. Here it is still dry; mix me a cup of wine, Antinous. Have any ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... it to tremble with her loyal fear! Which struck her sad, and then it faster rock'd, Until her husband's welfare she did hear; Whereat she smiled with so sweet a cheer, That had Narcissus seen her as she stood, Self-love had never drown'd him in the flood. ...
— The Rape of Lucrece • William Shakespeare [Clark edition]
... and antiquity of alchymy have been much controverted. If any credit may be placed on legend and tradition, it must be as old as the flood—nay, Adam himself is represented to have been an alchymist. A great part, not only of the heathen mythology, but of the Jewish Scriptures, are supposed to refer to it. Thus, Suidas[73] will have the fable of the philosopher's ...
— Thaumaturgia • An Oxonian
... angel is derived chiefly from the Book of Tobit, where Raphael is represented as the guide and counsellor of the young Tobias. In one of the later Midrashim, Raphael appears as the angel commissioned to put down the evil spirits that vexed the sons of Noah with plagues and sicknesses after the Flood, and he it was who taught men the use of "simples," and furnished materials for the "Book of Noah," the earliest ...
— Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery • Robert Means Lawrence
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